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Beyond saving lives: Political ecology, animal welfare, and the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica (2025)
Journal Article
Coose, S., Thomsen, B., Dodsworth, T., Eckl, F., Thomsen, J., Such, R., Guardia-Uribe, S., Villar, D. A., & Gosler, A. (2025). Beyond saving lives: Political ecology, animal welfare, and the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica. Human-Animal Interactions, 13(1), Article 0012. https://doi.org/10.1079/hai.2025.0012

Wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica is a deeply complex and often precarious endeavor, shaped by the intersection of local socio-political realities, environmental pressures, and the inherent limitations of the centers themselves. These factors not... Read More about Beyond saving lives: Political ecology, animal welfare, and the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica.

Modalities of Free Speech (2025)
Journal Article
Candea, M., Heywood, P., & Fedirko, T. (in press). Modalities of Free Speech. Annual Review of Anthropology,

While debates over freedom of speech have been a focus of renewed public and media attention over the past decade, anthropological literature focusing self-consciously and explicitly on the topic remained, until very recently, relatively thin on the... Read More about Modalities of Free Speech.

Nationalism and the Legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Imaginaries (2025)
Book Chapter
Lou, L. I. T. (2025). Nationalism and the Legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Imaginaries. In I. Gaitanidis, L. F. B. Junqueira, A. Morrow, & S.-Y. Han (Eds.), Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (277-298). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.25136991.21

This chapter explores how colonial legacy and the transition of sovereignty influenced the legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Macau. Contrary to previous research suggesting that the legitimacy of TCM hinges on the creation of miracl... Read More about Nationalism and the Legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Imaginaries.

Comparing the efficacy of two camera trapping techniques for assessing the occupancy, detection and activity patterns of small Mustelids in Britain (2025)
Journal Article
Croose, E., Wright, P. G. R., Carter, S. P., Green, S. E., & MacPherson, J. (2025). Comparing the efficacy of two camera trapping techniques for assessing the occupancy, detection and activity patterns of small Mustelids in Britain. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(2), 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-025-01914-7

Increasing concern over the unfavourable population trends and data gaps for many mustelids highlight the need to improve existing monitoring methods, to enable more accurate population assessments. Here, we investigated the efficacy of two camera tr... Read More about Comparing the efficacy of two camera trapping techniques for assessing the occupancy, detection and activity patterns of small Mustelids in Britain.

Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology (2025)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Rink, B., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., & Barber, C. (2025). Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology. African Transport Studies, 3, Article 100033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aftran.2025.100033

Understanding how young men navigate their journeys is important in the context of improving safe mobility for all, especially for those resident in city neighbourhoods with high rates of crime and poverty. Over the past decade, knowledge has been ac... Read More about Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology.

Niche exploitation profiles predict the palaeoclimate of tropical mammal communities (2025)
Journal Article
Kovarovic, K., & Lintulaakso, K. (2025). Niche exploitation profiles predict the palaeoclimate of tropical mammal communities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 666, Article 112860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112860

There are multiple ways in which fossil mammal communities can be used to reconstruct palaeoenvironments, but their relationship to paleoclimate conditions is less clear. In this study, we used a database of mammal species present at 167 modern local... Read More about Niche exploitation profiles predict the palaeoclimate of tropical mammal communities.

Paleoenvironments at the Homo erectus type locality of Trinil (Java, Indonesia): The artiodactyl evidence (2025)
Journal Article
Gruwier, B., & Kovarovic, K. (2025). Paleoenvironments at the Homo erectus type locality of Trinil (Java, Indonesia): The artiodactyl evidence. Journal of Human Evolution, 200, Article 103638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103638

In this study we assess the artiodactyl fossil record of the Homo erectus type locality of Trinil (Indonesia) and explore the paleoenvironmental implications for the site and for our understanding of early hominin paleoecology. Combining ecomorpholog... Read More about Paleoenvironments at the Homo erectus type locality of Trinil (Java, Indonesia): The artiodactyl evidence.

Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting (2025)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2025). Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting. Cultural Anthropology, 40(1), 105-130

This paper explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and ‘difficult’ heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the... Read More about Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting.

A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact (2025)
Journal Article
Rink, B., Porter, G., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., & Barber, C. (2025). A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v18i1.9217

As a collective of peer researchers, scholars and members of a non-profit organisation, we have come together to share a curated walk through low-income communities in Cape Town and London. We do so with the intent of exploring the embodied and socia... Read More about A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact.